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Oh, man! I've never heard of that! I'd watch it!

Yes, I need to do that. The quality is not great—rather on the dark and fuzzy side, but watchable, and with a decent score. (I believe it was a Grapevine DVD.)

Did we mention WHOLE FISH?

Gramophone Cinema! So cool!

Now that is cool! I guess the action would only last one go round of the disk. I wonder if any of those things still exist.

The Puss N Boots ad...I didn't catch whether that's the whole fish in that fish food...? Because it should have the whole fish and nothing but the whole fish.

donnie wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:10 am

I wonder if any of those things still exist.

There's a YouTube video of someone using multiple ones! Which one do you like best?
https://youtu.be/sPxB869f0kM

I like the head switcher best. I imagine these animations look better and clearer in person that they do in a video. What is the date of this device?

donnie wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 10, 2018 2:32 pm

I like the head switcher best. I imagine these animations look better and clearer in person that they do in a video. What is the date of this device?

I like the head switcher the best, too. The magazine the ad came from was from 1930. I haven't found much info on it, but I saw one thing where it said circa 1920.

It kind of has the feel of an early 20th century ad, but the bobbed hairstyle gives it away as later.

Neat one someone shared on Twitter.